So one of my bucket list hunts is to do a prairie waterfowl hunt while I am still able to do so. So last winter, recognizing outfitters were hurting, and after watching a Canada in the Rough and Homegrown hunter episodes showing hunts with Saskatchewan Goose Company, I contacted the owner Tyler Mann. When he called me back, turns out we have a mutual friend (who actually was in one of the episodes) and I booked a hunt for my daughter and me for late September, and paid a substantial deposit.
This was contingent on the border remaining closed as he was fully booked with non resident hunters. No problem. Well the border opened in August and I repeatedly called, emailed and texted him to find out if our hunt was cancelled (not all Americans were vaccinated allowing entry into Canada). Absolutely no response. Nothing.
Subsequent emails, texts and voice mails requesting that he contact me regarding the return of my deposit remain unanswered.
I am going to start small claims proceedings against him to recover my deposit, and wondering if anyone in the Battleford area would be willing to help me out and deliver notice when I get it from the court.
Have to admit, this really pisses me off as after watching a couple of Canadian shows, and trying to help a small Canadian business out in hard times, I am getting nowhere. Brings back bad memories of a slipshod outfitter hunt I went with my father on in northern Quebec for caribou. The company is long out of business,they were neither honest or competent. The caribou hunt was the only outfitter hunt I had ever been on, and this would have been my first outfitter hunt since that experience.
Hoping to do a prairie hunt this fall - but will have to do it as a DIY venture.
This was contingent on the border remaining closed as he was fully booked with non resident hunters. No problem. Well the border opened in August and I repeatedly called, emailed and texted him to find out if our hunt was cancelled (not all Americans were vaccinated allowing entry into Canada). Absolutely no response. Nothing.
Subsequent emails, texts and voice mails requesting that he contact me regarding the return of my deposit remain unanswered.
I am going to start small claims proceedings against him to recover my deposit, and wondering if anyone in the Battleford area would be willing to help me out and deliver notice when I get it from the court.
Have to admit, this really pisses me off as after watching a couple of Canadian shows, and trying to help a small Canadian business out in hard times, I am getting nowhere. Brings back bad memories of a slipshod outfitter hunt I went with my father on in northern Quebec for caribou. The company is long out of business,they were neither honest or competent. The caribou hunt was the only outfitter hunt I had ever been on, and this would have been my first outfitter hunt since that experience.
Hoping to do a prairie hunt this fall - but will have to do it as a DIY venture.
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